Rubber Bullets Kill and Disable People, Research Shows

Commonly used in crowd control, “kinetic impact projectiles” are far from harmless

Robert Roy Britt
Elemental
Published in
3 min readJun 3, 2020

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Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AFP/Getty Images

Rubber bullets aren’t always rubber.

They are sometimes coated with plastic, they often have a metal core, or are made of a mix of metals and other materials. In fact, there’s very little information on what…

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Robert Roy Britt
Elemental

Editor of Aha! and Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB